Outside the lettered city :

Dass, Manishita,

Outside the lettered city : cinema, modernity, and the public sphere in late colonial India / Manishita Dass. - xiv, 229 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Includes bibliographical references (pages 193-216) and index.

Introduction: cinema and the lettered city in colonial India -- Conjuring tricks: mythologicals and the invention of an "Indian" public -- Shadows on the screen: imagining the mass audience in 1920s India -- A school for scandal: cinema and lessons in modernity -- Distant observers: Bengali film criticism and dreams of a future cinema -- Conclusion: the once and future public.

9780190859190 (pbk.) Rs495.00

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Motion pictures--History--India--20th century.
Motion picture audiences--History.--India

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